We've recently converted most of our tests to use socat instead of
nc/netcat/ncat, because socat is more powerful and we don't need to deal
with the several possible variants of netcat.
We still use nc or ncat for the distro tests. Because there we control
the guest environment and can pick our tools, there isn't the same reason
to switch to socat. However, using socat here as well makes the tests
a bit easier to read, and doesn't require people reading or modifying them
to become familiar with an additional tool.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[sbrivio: keep using netcat-openbsd in Ubuntu 16.04 ppc64 test, as socat
is unavailable there]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
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